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| Released: 1930 |
| Rating: NR |
| Length: 98 minutes |
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Dixiana (1930)
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Plus La Cucaracha!
In 1929, RKO starred the comic team Wheeler and Woolsey in the film version of their hit play Rio Rita. It's success lead to a series of W&W films. Dixiana (1930) was their third.
Set in 1840's New Orleans, Dixiana finds a circus performer (Bebe Daniels) falling in love with a Southern sophisticate (Metropolitan Opera star Everett Marshall). Wheeler and Woolsey provide comic relief as members of the circus troupe.
What really sets Dixiana apart are its two-color Technicolor Mardi Gras finale (missing from TV prints for years) and the appearance of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in a great solo tap-dance sequence. What's more, it gave an early orchestration credit to Max Steiner (Gone With The Wind).
This DVD also includes the 1934 two-reeler La Cucaracha. The film was largely produced as a test of the new three-strip Technicolor process while ideas for a feature were consider. Costing $65,000 at a time when the average short ran $15,000, La Cucaracha was a smash and received the 1935 Academy Award for Best Comedy Short Subject. It also stands as the first live-action three-strip Technicolor film ever made.
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Studio: N/A
Subtitles: None
Screen Formats: STANDARD 1.33:1
Sound: ENGLISH: Dolby Analog Mono
Other Info: Features:
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UPC: 785604203520
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